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SALE OE CATTLE AT THE PARIS AGRICULTURAL 
EXHIBITION. 
There was a great demand for the Ayrshire cattle, 
which fetched very high prices, but the short-horns were the 
favorites. Mr. Ambler’s “ Grand Master” was sold for £250. 
Two animals bred by Mr. Jonas Webb and the property of 
M. de Trehonnais, were sold, even before the opening 
of the exhibition, for <£360. Several others fetched prices 
ranging between £80 and £ 150, and we should think that 
the average of the sale of short-horns would come to about 
£ 60 . 
It is also stated that Mr. Townley refused an offer of £1000 
for his bull cc Master Butterfly” which obtained the first prize. 
— Agricultural Paper . 
RABID DEER. 
In a communication received from Mr. J. D. Peech, 
M.R.C.V.S., Wentworth, he states that the deer alluded to 
in the June number of the Veterinarian , and said to be 
rabid, were certainly not so. cc I have seen,” he says, 
(e several medical men who visited the animals when the 
disease assumed its worst form, and from their account of 
the symptoms and the post-mortem appearances, I have 
every reason to believe that it was an epidemic caused 
mainly by want of sufficient food. Since the animals have 
been well supplied with good provender, and especially now 
that there is abundance of grass, the disease has nearly or 
quite disappeared, there having been only one or two cases, 
and those of a very trifling character, for several weeks past. 
Should you wish, I have no doubt that either Dr. Jackson 
or Mr. Wain wright, surgeon, would willingly send you the 
particulars of the symptoms and post-mortem appearances 
of the animals in question.” 
